Escobar's son. Cocaine King

Pablo Escobar is one of the most famous and brutal drug lords of the 20th century, not only in Colombia, but throughout the whole world. The notorious criminal used many methods of drug trafficking, one of his ingenious ideas was to soak jeans in liquid cocaine and then ship them to the United States. Despite brutal reprisals and even the destruction of civilian aircraft, Escobar was popular among young people and the poor.

15. Army of assassins
Escobar did not like to get his hands dirty, so all his orders were carried out by hired killers. So, killer John "Popeye" Vasquez, ordered by a drug lord, killed more than 300 people! Among his victims was even the main presidential candidate of Colombia, who did not inspire confidence in Escobar.

14. Elimination of competitors
Cocaine had astronomical demand in the United States in the 70s and 80s of the last century, and Escobar did not want to share the market with anyone. The first competitor Pablo killed was a well-known Medellin drug dealer named Fabio Restrepo.

13. Bombed building of the Colombian Security Department
Trying to kill police general Miguel Masa Marquez, the drug lord blew up the building of the Colombian Security Department in 1989. The bomb explosion killed 52 people and injured more than 1,000 of varying degrees of severity. That year turned out to be especially terrible for the country: at the hands of the drug lord, 12 judicial officials and 110 passengers on the Avianica airline plane, in which Escobar planted a bomb, died.

12. Fear turned him into a monster
The drug lord's greatest fear was extradition to the United States. And fear forced Escobar to commit even more daring and terrible crimes. He was so desperate to avoid imprisonment in the United States that he even offered to pay off the Colombian government's entire foreign debt. At that time, the criminal offered the authorities 10 million dollars.

11. Anything for the sake of killing
In 1989, Escobar decided to get rid of future president Cesar Gaviria. Having learned that the politician would fly on a passenger plane of the Colombian airline Avianaka, the drug lord planted a bomb. Three minutes after the airliner took off, a powerful explosion was heard on board. 110 people died. As it turned out later, Cesar Gaviria canceled his flight at the last moment.

10. The most dedicated assassin
Escobar had many hired killers, but the one he trusted most was John "Popaw" Vasquez. He took about 300 lives with his own hands and sentenced another 3,000 people to death. Popeye's most famous crime was the murder of Colombian presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galan in 1989. Vazquez has already served his time in prison, but still admits: "If Pablo Escobar was born again, I would follow him without hesitation. We loved him. He taught us to fight and gave us everything."

9. Tombstone theft
Young Pablo began his criminal activity by stealing tombstones from a Medellin cemetery. He erased the inscriptions and sold the tombstones to Panamanian dealers.

8. Thirteen-year-old wife
In 1976, 27-year-old Pablo married 13-year-old Maria, and two years later she gave birth to his son, and three years later - a daughter. Despite her husband's constant infidelities, Maria lived with him until the end of his life.

7. Kidnapping
In the struggle for money and power, Escobar kidnapped people more than once. So, in 1971, Pablo’s people kidnapped the wealthy Colombian industrialist Diego Echevario, who was killed after prolonged torture. The criminals tried to obtain a ransom, but failed and, after strangling their victim, threw the body into a landfill.

6. Bribery of police officers
In 1976, Escobar was arrested for drug possession, but he managed to bribe police officers and go free. After that incident, the drug lord began almost openly giving bribes to officials.

5. The "Silver or Lead" principle
Having become the undisputed authority of the cocaine world and the absolute leader of the Medellin cartel, Escobar bribed police officers, judges, and politicians. If bribery did not work, then blackmail was used, but basically the cartel acted according to the principle: “Plata O Plomo” - in other words, “silver or lead.” Either the person agreed and took the bribe, or a bullet was waiting for him.

4. Incredible influence
At the peak of his criminal career, Escobar controlled 80% of the cocaine traffic in the United States. It was estimated that about 70-80 tons of cocaine were shipped from Colombia to the United States in the 1980s. At the age of 30, Pablo became one of the richest people in the world.

3. Through the circles of hell
For a long time The drug lord's family lived in luxury: helicopters, a personal zoo, a mansion, and endless funds. Everything changed when the FBI got involved with Escobar. Pablo was under surveillance, and he was forced to go into hiding with his family. Now the drug lord was worried about the well-being of his children. Despite millions of dollars in their accounts, the family could no longer lead their previous life and live peacefully in their own home.

2. Not Robin Hood at all
To enlist the support of the population, Escobar launched extensive construction in Medellin. He paved roads, built stadiums and erected free houses for the poor. He himself explained his charity by the fact that it was painful for him to see how the poor suffered. Despite these good deeds, it was Escobar's people who planted powerful bomb into a car near a bookstore on one of the crowded streets of Bogota. As a result of that terrorist attack, many children and adults died. And in general, the drug lord without regrets killed anyone who in any way stood in his way.

1. Killing people
According to some estimates, the cocaine king is responsible for about 10 thousand. human lives. He walked over heads and got rid of enemies cruelly and without regret. Pablo Escobar entered world history as the most daring, merciless and powerful drug lord of all time.

"El Patron" was the boss of the most powerful drug cartel the world has ever seen. In 1989, according to Forbes magazine, he took 7th place in the ranking of the richest people on the planet, with a personal fortune of $25 billion.

However, for such fabulous money, the drug king’s family also paid a considerable price: his wife remained a widow, and their two children lost loving father at the ages of 15 and 8 years. And, despite the fact that Escobar was killed in December 1993, they are still paying with a powerful emotional burden and constant threats from people who directly or indirectly suffered at the hands of the notorious drug lord.

In addition, they lost almost all the money, which was confiscated and handed over to the Colombian authorities.

Family curse

A few months after Escobar's death, due to constant persecution and persecution, his widow and children were forced to flee Colombia, first to Mozambique, then to many other countries, whose governments one after another refused to grant them political asylum. Everything except .

It's been 24 years since the bloody drug lord's family fled their home country. What happened with them since then? Who is Escobar's family today?

Wife: Maria Victoria Eneo Viejo

In 1974, when Escobar was 24, he began dating a 13-year-old Maria Victoria Eneo Viejo(Spanish: Maria Victoria Henao Vellejo). Her family did not approve of their relationship and the couple fled to the city of Palmyra, and in March 1976 they got married.

Throughout his life, Escobar had a huge number of extramarital affairs, but, despite all the adventures of her husband, Maria Victoria supported him in everything, remaining with him until the very last day of his life. No one really knew about their relationship, but there was speculation that she was simply carried away by luxury.

Having fled to Argentina, the widow changed her name to Maria Isabel Santos Caballero(Spanish: Maria Isabel Santos Caballero). Together with their children, they lived the quiet life of an average family in a small apartment. This quiet life lasted only 5 years.

In 2000, Maria Isabel and her son were arrested on charges of falsification of documents, conspiracy and illegal money laundering. Allegedly, Escobar's wife received part of the money he earned from former members.

They were imprisoned in Argentina for 15 months (remarkably, they spent longer in prison than Pablo himself ever did), but were later released on the basis of insufficient evidence. A whole team of lawyers tried to incriminate them with many crimes, including drug trafficking, but in the end, due to lack of facts, they were forced to retreat.

Son: Juan Pablo Escobar Eneo

He inherited not only his father’s surname and first name, but also similar facial features. Quite a dangerous combination when trying to start life from scratch. Fleeing with his family to Argentina, he became known as Juan Sebastian Marroquin Santos(Spanish: Juan Sebastian Marroquín Santos), but this did not help him hide his true identity from the eyes of the unwanted public for long.

Juan was born in 1977 in Medellin. He loved his father very much, in general, the two were always very close, but by nature he was a pacifist and never agreed with the cruelty and violence that Escobar professed. Until he was 12-13 years old, he had no idea what his father was doing.

It was from a telephone conversation between father and son on that fateful December evening that US and Colombian special agents figured out the location of Escobar’s hideout. Neglecting caution, father and son remained on the line for almost 5 minutes. In this conversation, the drug lord told Juan that he would surrender to the police for his sake.

Having moved to Argentina, the young man entered school, dreaming of becoming an architect. He enjoyed new life, measured and free, where there is no shooting and constant fear. But, hiding and living a lie, he could never feel happy. None of his friends and classmates knew who Juan Marroquin really was, for him this was a great relief, but at the same time he felt guilty.

In 2009, in collaboration with Morocquin, as well as his mother and two victims of cartel terror, a documentary film entitled " My Father's Sins"(Spanish: "Pecados de mi padre"). In this work, Juan addressed the victims of Pablo Escobar and the entire Colombian people to ask for forgiveness for the actions of his father.

Currently lives in Buenos Aires with his wife and daughter.

Daughter: Manuela Escobar Eneo

The daughter of the "Cocaine King", remained more than mysterious figure than her brother and mother. In contrast, Manuela has completely evaded the public eye. Today almost nothing is known about her, only what she was like as a child before Escobar's death.

She was born on October 6, 1984 in Brownsville (USA, Texas), i.e. I lost my father at the age of 8. According to the recollections of people close to the family, all this short time Manuela grew up as a very spoiled child, the center of attention, her father’s little princess.

One day she wanted a unicorn, Escobar bought a horse and ordered a cardboard cone in the shape of a horn to be stapled to her head. Wings were also sewn to the horse's back, as a result of which it died from an infection in the blood.

After his death, Manuela got used to life full of dangers and instability. At age 10, she moved with her family to Buenos Aires and changed her name to Juana Manuela Marroquin Santos(Spanish: Juana Manuela Marroquin Santos).

Since then, she has completely closed herself off from the public, pretending to be someone else. Since 2000 (when her mother and brother were arrested) practically nothing is known about her. We can only assume that 31-year-old Manuela Marroquín still lives in Buenos Aires, perhaps with a different name.

Parents

Father– Abel de Jesus Escobar Echeverri (Spanish: Abel de Jesus Escobar Echeverri), died in 2001 from pneumonia;

Mother– Hermilda Gaviria (Spanish: Hermilda Gaviria), died in 2006 at the age of 90, from diabetes.

The most successful terrorist in the history of mankind was born into the family of a simple farmer Abel de Jesus Escobar and a primary school teacher Hermilda Gaviria. The family had 7 children, the third of whom was Pablo. Their maternal grandfather Roberto Gaviria (Spanish: Roberto Gaviria Cobaleda) was a famous whiskey smuggler during Prohibition.

Brothers and sisters

Older brother: Roberto Escobar (Spanish)Robert Escobar Gaviria)

Born on January 11, 1947 in Rio Negro (Spanish: Rio Negro), Colombia. He was interested in studying chemistry and engineering and was actively involved in cycling. By the age of 18, he became a professional cyclist, winner of numerous national and international awards, and later coach of the Colombian youth cycling team. Eventually, he was drawn into a criminal lifestyle by his younger brother. Was " right hand» Escobar, and the chief accountant of the Medellin Cartel, bore the nickname El Osito.

Shortly before Pablo's death, he was imprisoned for 11 years in a maximum security colony. Having deep knowledge of the financial component of the cartel, in prison Roberto wrote the book “ Accountant's story: Cruel world Medellin cartel"(English: "The Accountant's Story: Inside the Violent World of the Medellín Cartel"), in which he spoke about the internal affairs of the drug empire.

In 1993, 16 days after the murder of his brother, while in prison, having received an anonymous explosive letter, he became blind in one eye and partially lost his hearing.

Since his release from prison in 2003, he has directed the Pablo Escobar Museum, which is located in the former estate of the drug lord Naples (Spanish: Nápoles).

According to Sebastian Marroquín, after Pablo Escobar's death, Roberto immediately betrayed the family by making a deal with the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) to lie about his brother.

Less is known about the others:

older sister: Gloria Inés Escobar Gaviria (Spanish: Gloria Inés Escobar Gaviria);
younger brother: Argemiro Escobar Gaviria (Spanish: Argemiro Escobar Gaviria);
younger sister: Alba Marina Escobar Gaviria (Spanish: Alba Marina Escobar Gaviria);
younger sister: Luz Maria Escobar Gaviria (Spanish: Luz María Escobar Gaviria);
youngest brother: Luis Fernando Escobar Gaviria (Spanish: Luis Fernando Escobar Gaviria) (born in 1958 and died at the age of 19 in 1977).

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Manuela Escobar Eneo(Spanish: Manuela Escobar Henao) - the daughter of one of the most famous and brutal criminals in history, a Colombian drug lord (Spanish: Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria; 12/01/1949 - 12/02/1993).

Today everyone calls her Juana, Juana Manuela Marroquin Santos(Spanish: Juana Manuela Marroquin Santos). Almost nothing else is known about her, only what kind of child she was before the death of the leader of the famous Medellin Cartel. Even her photos taken after 1993 were removed from all open sources.

No one knows exactly what kind of inheritance the drug mafia leader left to the family: we are talking about the surviving real estate in different countries South America, as Colombian estates were burned or looted and all assets confiscated. Presumably, she, his beloved, became the heir to Escobar’s entire fortune, which was estimated at $20 billion on the day of his death. daughter Manuela.

Happy childhood

Manuela Escobar was born on October 6, 1984 in the city of Brownsville (USA, Texas). According to the recollections of some people close to their family, all these short years she grew up as a happy, carefree and spoiled child, she was the center of attention, a little princess for her father.

It is difficult to imagine that a man who in the minds of most people is associated with cruelty, without pity, all-consuming greed and fear, became so loving and gentle with his daughter.

She adored her father, he loved her so much that he was ready to fulfill all her desires, fulfill any whim. Whether it's a living giraffe or a cartoon character. Everything was very simple: if Manuela wanted something, she certainly got it!

One day a girl asked to give her a unicorn. Escobar bought a horse and ordered a cardboard cone in the shape of a horn to be stapled to its head. Wings were also sewn to the horse's back, as a result of which the animal died from an infection.

Escobar did not feel sorry for any money for the sake of his daughter; when her baby tooth fell out, the “tooth fairy” left a suitcase with $1 million near her crib, supposedly in exchange for her tooth. And when a girl asked her father how many billions he had, Pablo always answered her: “As much as the look of your eyes is worth, my princess!” They say that Escobar forced one of his mistresses, who became pregnant by him, to have an abortion only because the drug lord promised Manuela that she would always be his only daughter.

Mother and son were sent to an Argentine prison for 15 months. It is noteworthy that they spent longer “behind bars” than Pablo himself ever did. After this period, due to insufficient evidence, they were released.

From that moment on, the girl’s life changed dramatically again. Everyone found out who she was, what her real name was, and why she and her family ended up in Buenos Aires.

Only now, at 16 years old, did the girl find out what her father really did, because her family always hid the truth from her! For Juana Manuela it was a serious blow, because for her dad has always been the kindest and noblest man in the world.

Manuela Escobar a few weeks after her father's death

Since then, she has completely closed herself off from the public, plunging into melancholy and loneliness. She became a very withdrawn girl and practically stopped communicating with friends. She refused to return to school and hardly went out, studying at home with private teachers.

Since 2000, practically nothing more is known about her. Since then, only the only photo, proving her physical existence, where she is depicted next to her mother and brother.

Unlike his older brother, Juan Pablo, now known as Juan Sebastian Marroquin Santos(Spanish: Juan Sebastian Marroquín Santos), who is actively involved in social activities, Manuela Escobar still prefers to remain in the shadows.

"Close your eyes, Princess"

In 2007, 14 years after Pablo's death, an Argentine journalist Jose Alejandro Castaño(Spanish: José Alejandro Castaño) allowed him to conduct journalistic practice by living for 20 days with Escobar's widow and son in their home in Buenos Aires. He also saw Juan Manuela several times.

Pablo Escobar
Spanish Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria
Birth name: Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria
Occupation: Drug lord
Date of birth: December 1, 1949
Place of birth: Rionegro, Colombia
Nationality: Colombia
Date of death: December 2, 1993
Place of Death: Medellin, Colombia

Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria(Spanish: Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria; December 1, 1949 - December 2, 1993) - Colombian drug lord, terrorist. Pablo Escobar made a lot of money from the drug business. In 1989, Forbes magazine estimated his fortune at $47 billion.
Escobar went down in history as one of the most daring and brutal criminals of the 20th century, not only in Colombia, but throughout the whole world. Killing judges, prosecutors, journalists, destroying civil aircraft, police stations and personally executing his victims, he was popular among young people and the poor.

Early years
Born on December 1, 1949, 40 kilometers from Medellin. Escobar was the third child in the family. His father was a poor peasant, his mother also came from the lower classes.
Like most of his peers, Pablo Escobar loved to listen heroic stories about the legendary Colombian "bandidos". About how they robbed the rich and helped the needy. Already as a child, he decided that when he grew up, he would become the same “Bandido”. At school, Pablo had to study among children from poorer families. In 1961, his family moved to Envigado, south of Medellin. There Pablo went to study at local school. He soon began smoking marijuana and was kicked out of school at age 16.
Start of criminal activity

Pablo began to spend most of his time in the poor neighborhoods of Medellin, which was a real hotbed of crime. At first, he began to steal tombstones from the local cemetery and, erasing the inscriptions, sold them again. Soon he created a small gang and began to engage in more sophisticated criminal activity: the theft of expensive cars for sale for spare parts. Then Pablo Escobar came up with another idea: to offer his “protection” to potential hijacking victims. Those who refused to pay his gang sooner or later lost their cars. This was already a real racket.

At 21, he already had quite a few followers. At the same time, Escobar's crimes became even more sophisticated and cruel. From ordinary car thefts and racketeering, he began to kidnap people. In 1971, Pablo Escobar's men kidnapped the wealthy Colombian industrialist Diego Echevario, who was killed after prolonged torture. The murdered Diego Echevario aroused open hatred among the local poor peasantry, and Pablo Escobar openly declared his involvement in the kidnapping and murder. The poor people of Medellin celebrated the death of Diego Echevario and, as a sign of gratitude to Escobar, began to respectfully call him “El Doctor.” Pablo Escobar began to “feed” the local poor by building them new cheap houses. He understood that sooner or later they would become something of a protective buffer between him and the authorities. His popularity in Medellin grew day by day.

In 1972, Pablo Escobar was already Medellin's most famous crime lord. His criminal gang engaged in car thefts, smuggling and kidnappings. Soon his gang expanded beyond Medellin.

Meanwhile, in the United States, the new generation of Americans of the 70s was no longer content with just marijuana, they needed a stronger drug, and cocaine soon appeared on American streets. On this Pablo Escobar began to build his criminal business. He first bought cocaine from manufacturers and resold it to smugglers, who then transported it to the United States. The absolute absence of any “inhibitions” and his manic readiness to torture and kill set him apart from other bandits. When he heard rumors of some lucrative criminal business, he simply seized it by force without further ado. Anyone who stood in his way or could in any way threaten him immediately disappeared without a trace. Quite quickly, Escobar began to run almost the entire cocaine industry in Colombia.

In March 1976, Pablo Escobar married his 18-year-old girlfriend, Maria Victoria Eneo Viejo, who had previously been in his circle. A month later their son Juan Pablo was born, and three and a half years later their daughter Manuella was born.

Escobar's drug business grew rapidly throughout South America. Soon he himself began smuggling cocaine into the United States. One of Escobar’s close associates, a certain Carlos Leider, who was responsible for transporting cocaine, organized a real drug trafficking transshipment point in the Bahamas. His work was organized on top level: a large pier, a number of gas stations and a modern hotel with all amenities were built there. Not a single drug trafficker could export cocaine outside of Colombia without the permission of Pablo Escobar. He removed the so-called 35 percent tax from each shipment of drugs and ensured its delivery. Escobar's criminal career was more than successful; he was literally swimming in dollars. In the jungles of Colombia, he opened chemical laboratories for the production of cocaine.
Founding of the cocaine cartel

In the summer of 1977, he and three other major drug traffickers teamed up to create what became known as the Medellin cocaine cartel. He had the most powerful financial and cocaine empire, which no drug mafia in the world could dream of. To deliver cocaine, the cartel had a distribution network, airplanes, and even submarines. Pablo Escobar became the undisputed authority of the cocaine world and the absolute leader of the Medellin cartel. He bought policemen, judges, politicians. If bribery did not work, then blackmail was used, but basically the cartel acted according to the principle: “Plata O Plomo” - translated as “silver or lead”, in other words, “if you don’t take the money, you’ll get a bullet.”

By 1979, the Medellin cartel already owned more than 80% of the US cocaine industry. 30-year-old Pablo Escobar became one of the richest people in the world, whose personal fortune amounted to billions of dollars.

To enlist the support of the population, he launched extensive construction in Medellin. He paved roads, built stadiums and erected free houses for the poor, which were popularly called “Pablo Escobar quarters.” He himself explained his charity by the fact that it hurt him to see how the poor suffered. Escobar saw himself as a Colombian Robin Hood.
Political activity
Propaganda posters for Escobar's presidential campaign.

In the criminal world, he reached the pinnacle of power. Now he was looking for a way to make his business legal. In 1982, Pablo Escobar ran for office and, at age 32, became a substitute member of the Colombian Congress (gaining the right to vote for congressmen during their absence).

Having broken into Congress, Escobar dreamed of becoming president of Colombia. At the same time, once in Bogota, he noticed that his popularity did not extend beyond Medellin. In Bogota, naturally, they heard about him, but as a dubious person paving a cocaine road to the presidency. One of the most popular politicians in Colombia, the main candidate for the presidency, Luis Carlos Galan, was the first to openly condemn the connection of the new congressman with the cocaine business.

A few days later, Justice Minister Rodrigo Lara Bonia launched a broad campaign against the investment of dirty cocaine money in the election race. As a result, Pablo Escobar was expelled from the Colombian Congress in January 1984. Through the efforts of the Minister of Justice, his political career ended once and for all. However, Escobar was not going to leave quietly and decided to take revenge on the minister.

On April 30, 1984, Bonia's ministerial Mercedes stopped at a traffic light on one of Bogota's busiest streets. At that moment, a motorcyclist drove up at point-blank range with a machine gun, riddling the back of the Mercedes, where the Minister of Justice usually sat. An automatic burst literally blew off the head of Rodrigo Lara Bonia. This is the first time that bandits have killed such a high-ranking official in Colombia. From that day on, terror began to spread throughout Colombia.

In the mid-1980s, Escobar's cocaine empire controlled almost every aspect of Colombian society. However, a serious threat looms over him. The administration of US President Ronald Reagan declared its own war on drug trafficking not only in the United States, but throughout the world. An agreement was reached between the United States and Colombia, according to which the Colombian government pledged to hand over to American justice the cocaine barons involved in trafficking drugs to the United States.

This was done because if drug traffickers were in any Colombian prison, they could, as before, continue to run their gangs without hindrance directly from their places of detention and would very soon be free. As for extradition to the United States, the drug traffickers understood that they would not be able to buy their freedom there.

The drug mafia responded with terror to the total war started by the government. Pablo Escobar created a terrorist group called Los Extraditables. Its members attacked officials, police, and anyone who opposed the drug trade. The reason for the terrorist attack could have been a major police operation or the extradition of another cocaine mafia boss to the United States.

A year later, the Supreme Court overturned the agreement on the extradition of drug traffickers to the United States. However, after a few days new president Colombia's Vergilio Barco vetoed the decision Supreme Court and renewed this agreement. In February 1987, Escobar's closest assistant, Carlos Leider, was extradited to the United States.

Pablo Escobar was forced to build secret hideouts throughout the country. Thanks to information from his people in the government, he managed to stay one step ahead law enforcement agencies. In addition, the peasants always warned him when suspicious people, cars with policemen or soldiers, or a helicopter appeared.

In August 1989, the terror reached its peak. On August 16, 1989, Supreme Court member Carlos Valencia died at the hands of Escobar's hitmen. The next day, police Colonel Waldemar Franklin Contero was killed. On August 18, 1989, at a pre-election rally, the famous Colombian politician Luis Carlos Galan was shot, who promised, if elected president of the country, to start an irreconcilable war against cocaine traffickers, to cleanse Colombia of drug lords by extraditing them to the United States.

Before the elections, the terror of the Medellin cartel acquired a special scope. Cartel hitmen killed dozens of people every day. In Bogota alone, one of the terrorist drug mafia groups carried out 7 explosions within two weeks, as a result of which 37 people were killed and about 400 were seriously injured.

On November 27, 1989, Pablo Escobar's men planted a bomb on a Boeing 727 passenger plane of the Colombian airline Avianca, which was carrying 101 passengers and 6 crew members. The successor of the deceased Luis Carlos Galan, the future president of Colombia, César Gaviria Trujillo, was supposed to fly on this plane. Five minutes after the airliner took off, a powerful explosion was heard on board. The plane broke in half, caught fire and crashed into the nearby hills. None of the people on board survived; three people on the ground were killed by falling aircraft debris. As it turned out later, Cesar Gaviria canceled his flight at the last moment for some reason.

Massive raids swept across the country, during which chemical laboratories and coca plantations were destroyed. Dozens of drug cartel members are behind bars. In response to this, Pablo Escobar twice made attempts on the life of the chief of the Colombian secret police, General Miguel Masa Marquez. In the second attempt, on December 6, 1989, a bomb explosion killed 62 people and injured 100 of varying degrees of severity.

...By the early 90s, Pablo Escobar was considered one of the richest people on the planet. His fortune was estimated at at least $30 billion. He topped the list of the most wanted drug traffickers in the United States. On his heels invariably followed the elite special forces, which set themselves the task of catching or destroying Pablo Escobar at any cost.
Harassment and arrest

In 1990, just the mention of Pablo Escobar's name struck terror throughout Colombia. He was the most known criminal in the world. The government created a “Special Search Group” whose target was Pablo Escobar himself. The group included the best police officers from selected units, as well as people from the army, special services and the prosecutor's office.

The creation of the “Special Search Group,” headed by Colonel Martinez, immediately brought positive results. Several people from Pablo Escobar's inner circle found themselves behind the walls of the secret police.

Escobar's men kidnapped some of Colombia's richest people. Pablo Escobar hoped that influential relatives of the hostages would put pressure on the government to cancel the agreement on the extradition of the criminals. And ultimately Escobar's plan succeeded. The government canceled the extradition of Pablo Escobar. On June 19, 1991, after Pablo Escobar was no longer in danger of extradition to the United States, he surrendered to the authorities. Escobar agreed to plead guilty to several minor crimes, in exchange for all his past sins being forgiven. Pablo Escobar was in a prison that he built for himself.

The prison was called "La Catedral" and was built in the Envigado mountain range. La Catedral looked more like an expensive, prestigious country club than a regular prison. There was a disco, a swimming pool, a jacuzzi and a sauna, and in the courtyard there was a large football field. Friends and women came to see him there. Escobar's family could visit him at any time. Colonel Martinez's "Special Search Group" did not have the right to approach La Catedral closer than 20 kilometers. Escobar came and went as he pleased. He attended football matches and nightclubs in Medellin.

During his imprisonment, Pablo Escobar continued to run a multi-billion dollar cocaine business. One day he learned that his associates in the cocaine cartel, taking advantage of his absence, robbed him. He immediately ordered his men to take them to La Catedral. He personally subjected them to unbearable torture, drilling his victims' knees and tearing out their nails, and then ordered his men to kill them and take the corpses outside the prison. It is known that Escobar committed one of the two murders with his own hands. This time Escobar went too far. On July 22, 1992, President Gaviria gave the order to transfer Pablo Escobar to a real prison. But Escobar found out about the president's decision and fled.

Now he was free, but he had enemies everywhere. There were fewer and fewer places left in which he could find a safe refuge. The governments of the United States and Colombia this time were determined to put an end to Escobar and his Medellin cocaine cartel. After his escape from prison, everything began to fall apart. His friends began to leave him. Pablo Escobar's main mistake was that he could not critically assess the current situation. He considered himself a more significant figure than he actually was. He continued to have enormous financial resources, but he no longer had real power. The only way to somehow improve the situation was an attempt to renew the agreement with the government. Escobar tried several times to re-enter into a deal with justice, but President Cesar Gaviria and the US government believed that this time it was not worth entering into any negotiations with the drug lord. It was decided to pursue him and, if possible, eliminate him during his arrest.

On January 30, 1993, Pablo Escobar's men planted a powerful bomb in a car near a bookstore on one of the crowded streets of Bogota. The explosion occurred when there were a lot of people. Mostly these were parents with their children. As a result of this terrorist attack, 21 people were killed and more than 70 were seriously injured.

A group of Colombian citizens created the organization "Los Pepes", whose acronym stood for "People Victims of Pablo Escobar". It included Colombian citizens whose relatives died because of Escobar.

After the terrorist attack, Los Pepes detonated bombs in front of Pablo Escobar's house. The estate that belonged to his mother burned to the ground. Instead of pursuing Pablo Escobar himself, Los Pepes began to terrorize and hunt everyone who was in any way connected with him or his cocaine business. They were simply killed. In a short amount of time, they caused significant damage to his cocaine empire. They killed many of his people and persecuted his family. They burned his estates. Now Escobar was seriously worried, since Los Pepes, having discovered the family, would immediately destroy it before last person, not even sparing his elderly mother and children. If his family were outside Colombia, beyond the reach of Los Pepes, he could declare all-out war on the government and his enemies. He wanted to take his family to Germany. But after negotiations between the Colombian government and US intelligence agencies with the German government, Escobar's family was denied entry into the country and the plane was returned back to Colombia. In Colombia, the government put them up in a hotel.
End of career and death
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Colombian police officers near Escobar's corpse.

In the fall of 1993, the Medellin cocaine cartel collapsed. But Pablo Escobar himself was more worried about his family. For more than a year he had not seen his wife or children. For Escobar this was intolerable. On December 1, 1993, Pablo Escobar turned 44 years old. He knew that he was under constant surveillance, so he tried to speak on the phone as briefly as possible so that he would not be detected by NSA agents.

The day after his birthday, December 2, 1993, he called his family. NSA agents had been waiting for this call for 24 hours. This time, while talking to his son Juan, he stayed on the line for about 5 minutes. After this, Escobar was spotted in the Medellin quarter of Los Olibos. Soon, the house in which Pablo Escobar was hiding was surrounded on all sides by special agents. The special forces knocked down the door and burst inside. At that moment, Escobar's bodyguard, El Limon, opened fire on the police who were trying to storm the house. He was wounded and fell to the ground. Immediately after this, with a pistol in his hands, Pablo Escobar himself leaned out of the same window. He opened random fire in all directions. He then climbed out the window and tried to escape his pursuers through the roof. There, a bullet fired by a Los Pepes sniper hiding on the roof of a nearby house hit Escobar in the leg and he fell. The next bullet hit Escobar in the back, after which the sniper approached Escobar and fired a control shot in the head.

Now Escobar's prison has been looted, his estates are overgrown with grass, his cars are burned out and their skeletons are rusting in the garage. Escobar's widow and children live in Argentina; his brother is almost completely blind after a letter bomb was sent to his cell.
In works of art

Documentary by Jeff and Michael Zimbalist. The two Escobars; 2010; Colombia-USA. Part of ESPN's 30 Events in 30 Years documentary series.
IN feature film“The Crew” (“The Crew”, USA, 2000) the drug lord’s two assistants are named Pablo and Escobar.
The film Cocaine (Blow) featured the character Pablo Escobar.
In the series Entourage, one of the main characters of the series, Vincent Chase (Adrian Graner), played the role of Pablo Escobar in the film Medellin, the film talked about the emotions and experiences of the main drug lord of Colombia.

In the repertoire of the Mexican group Brujeria, the album “Raza Odiada” (1995), there is a song “El Patron”, dedicated to the memory of Pablo Escobar.

In computer games GTA Vice City and GTA Vice City Stories international airport is named after Pablo Escobar.
In the game Xenus: Boiling point, the image of Pablo Escobar was “glued” to the image of one of the drug lords, Don Esteban.
In the feature film Marley and Me, Sebastian Tannay (Eric Dane) allegedly met with Pablo Escobar who told him: “Yes, he says, I read your article about Gaddafi, you did a great job tickling that peacock.”
Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez, in his documentary thriller "News of a Kidnapping," tells the story of Pablo Escobar's struggle with the country's government to repeal the law on extradition by kidnapping. famous journalists and relatives of Colombian politicians.
In the album of the Russian rap group Bad Balance “Legends of Gangsters” there is a song “Pablo Escobar”.
In the repertoire American group Soulfly the song Plata o Plomo from the album Enslaved is dedicated to the activities of Pablo Escobar.
The leader of the rock band Bredor goes by the nickname "Escobar".

Interesting facts

Escobar owned 34 estates, 500 thousand hectares of land, 40 rare Rolls-Royce cars.
On Escobar's estate, 20 artificial lakes, six swimming pools were dug, and even a small airport was built.
Within his estate, Pablo Escobar ordered the construction of a safari zoo, which included 120 antelope, 30 buffalo, 6 hippopotamuses, 3 elephants and 2 rhinoceroses.
The son of a drug lord, Sebastian Marroquin, said in October 2009 that somehow, in once again hiding from government agents, Escobar, along with his son and daughter, ended up in a high-altitude hideout. The night turned out to be extremely cold, and, trying to warm his daughter, Escobar burned $1 million 964 thousand in cash.
Pablo Escobar was depicted on a New Year's greeting advertising poster in the center of Kharkov (at the beginning of Pushkinskaya Street). Until now, no one has spoken openly about their involvement in placing the drug lord on this congratulatory poster.
In the movie Jay and Silent Bob, the crack dealer's name is Pablo Escobar.

Colombian drug lord. Escobar was born on December 1, 1949, 40 kilometers from Medellin. He was the third child in the family. His father was a poor peasant, his mother also came from the lower classes.

Like most of his peers, Pablo Escobar loved to listen to heroic stories about the legendary Colombian "banditos". About how they robbed the rich and helped the needy. Already as a child, he decided that when he grew up, he would become the same “banditos”.

Who would have thought then that the innocent romantic dreams of a fragile, gentle boy would take the form of a nightmare in a couple of decades. At school, Pablo had to study among children from poorer families. In 1961, his family moved to Envigado, south of Medellin.

Pablo Escobar - the first steps in the field of crime

In Envigado, Pablo went to study at a local school, where far-left students predominated. Political Views He and his new schoolmates openly supported the Cuban Revolution that had occurred several years earlier. He soon became addicted to marijuana and was kicked out of school at age 16. From this age, Pablo Escobar began to commit crimes. Escobar began to spend most of his time in the poor neighborhoods of Medellin, which was a real hotbed of crime. At first, he began to steal tombstones from the local cemetery and, erasing the inscriptions, resold them again.

Soon he created a small criminal gang of like-minded people and began to engage in a more sophisticated criminal trade: the theft of expensive cars for sale for spare parts. Then Pablo Escobar came up with another “brilliant” idea: to offer his “protection” to potential victims of theft. Those who refused to pay his gang sooner or later lost their cars. This was already a real racket. At 21, he already had quite a few followers.

Pablo Escobar starts to get violent

At the same time, Escobar's crimes became even more sophisticated and cruel. From ordinary car thefts and racketeering, he started kidnapping. In 1971, Pablo Escobar's men kidnapped the wealthy Colombian industrialist Diego Echevario, who was killed after prolonged torture. This murder was never solved.

The murdered Diego Echevario aroused open hatred among the local poor peasantry, and Pablo Escobar openly declared his involvement in the kidnapping and murder. The poor people of Medellin celebrated the death of Diego Echevario and, as a sign of gratitude to Escobar, began to respectfully call him “El Doctor.” Pablo Escobar began to “feed” the local poor by building them new cheap houses.

He understood that sooner or later they would become a kind of protective buffer between him and the authorities, and his popularity in Medellin grew day by day. In 1972, Pablo Escobar was already Medellin's most famous crime boss. His criminal group was involved in car thefts, smuggling and kidnappings. Soon his gang expanded beyond Medellin. Meanwhile, in the USA, the new generation of Americans of the 70s was no longer content with just marijuana, they needed something stronger, and soon a new drug appeared on American streets - cocaine.

Pablo Escobar's cocaine empire

On this Pablo Escobar began to build his criminal business. He first bought cocaine from manufacturers and resold it to smugglers, who then transported it to the United States. The absolute absence of any “brakes”, his manic readiness to torture and kill, put him beyond competition. When he heard rumors of some profitable criminal business, he, without unnecessary ceremony, simply seized it by force. Anyone who stood in his way or could in any way threaten him immediately disappeared without a trace. Soon Escobar controlled almost the entire cocaine industry in Colombia.

In March 1976, Pablo Escobar married his 15-year-old girlfriend, Maria Victoria Eneo Viejo, who had previously been in his circle. A month later their son Juan Pablo was born, and three and a half years later their daughter Manuella was born. Pablo Escobar's drug business grew rapidly throughout South America. Soon he himself began smuggling cocaine into the United States. One of Escobar’s close associates, a certain Carlos Leider, who was responsible for transporting cocaine, organized a real drug trafficking transshipment point in the Bahamas. The service was delivered at the highest level. A large pier, a number of gas stations and a modern hotel with all amenities were built there.

Not a single drug trafficker could export cocaine outside of Colombia without the permission of Pablo Escobar. He removed the so-called 35 percent tax from each shipment of drugs and ensured its delivery. Escobar's criminal career was more than successful; he was literally swimming in dollars. In the jungles of Colombia, he opened illegal chemical laboratories for the production of cocaine. In the summer of 1977, he and three other major drug traffickers teamed up to create what became known as the Medellin cocaine cartel.

Escobar's powerful cocaine empire

He had the most powerful financial and cocaine empire, which no drug mafia in the world could dream of. To deliver cocaine, the cartel had a distribution network, airplanes, and even submarines. Pablo Escobar became the most indisputable authority in the cocaine world and the absolute leader of the Medellin cartel. He bought policemen, judges, politicians. If bribery did not work, then blackmail was used, but basically the cartel acted on the principle: “Pay or die.”

By 1979, he already owned more than 80% of the US cocaine industry. 30-year-old Pablo Escobar became one of the richest people in the world, whose personal fortune amounted to billions of dollars. Escobar had 34 estates, 500 thousand hectares of land, 40 rare cars. On Escobar's estate, 20 artificial lakes, six swimming pools were dug, and even a small airport with a runway was built. At times it seemed that the cocaine drug lord simply did not know what to do with the money. Within his estate, Pablo Escobar ordered the construction of a safari zoo, to which the most exotic animals were brought from all over the world. The zoo had 120 antelopes, 30 buffaloes, 6 hippos, 3 elephants and 2 rhinoceroses.

In hidden from prying eyes part of his estate, he liked to organize wild sexual orgies, for which he invited young girls. However, Escobar himself practically did not use cocaine. Moreover, Pablo Escobar, despite the fact that his enormous fortune grew from the cocaine trade, treated drug addicts with contempt, considering them subhuman. To enlist the support of the population, he launched extensive construction in Medellin. He paved roads, built stadiums and erected free houses for the poor, which were popularly called “Barrio Pablo Escobar”.

Pablo Escobar as Robin Hood

He himself explained his charity by the fact that it hurt him to see how the poor suffered. Escobar saw himself as a Colombian Robin Hood. In the criminal world, he reached the pinnacle of power. Now he was looking for a way to make his business legal. In 1982, Pablo Escobar ran for the Colombian Congress. And he eventually became a substitute member of the Colombian Congress at age 32. That is, he replaced congressmen during their absence. Having broken into Congress, Escobar dreamed of becoming president of Colombia.

At the same time, once in Bogota, he noticed that his popularity did not extend beyond Medellin. In Bogota they naturally heard about him, but as a dubious person paving a cocaine road to the presidency. One of the most popular politicians in Colombia, the main candidate for the presidency, Luis Carlos Galan, was the first to openly condemn the connection of the new congressman with the cocaine business.

A few days later, Justice Minister Rodrigo Lara Bonia launched a widespread campaign against the investment of dirty cocaine money in the election race. As a result, Pablo Escobar was expelled from the Colombian Congress in January 1984. Through the efforts of the Minister of Justice, his political career ended once and for all. However, Escobar was not going to leave quietly and decided to take revenge on the minister. On April 30, 1984, Bonia's ministerial Mercedes stopped at a traffic light on one of Bogota's busiest streets. At that moment, a motorcyclist drove up at point-blank range with a machine gun, riddling the back of the Mercedes, where the Minister of Justice usually sat. An automatic burst literally blew off the head of Rodrigo Lara Bonia. This is the first time that bandits have killed such a high-ranking official in Colombia.

Escobar's Terror

From that day on, terror began to spread throughout Colombia. In the mid-1980s, Escobar's cocaine empire controlled almost every aspect of Colombian society. However, a serious threat looms over him. The administration of US President Ronald Reagan declared its own war on the spread of drugs not only throughout the United States, but throughout the world. An agreement was reached between the United States and Colombia, according to which the Colombian government pledged to hand over to American justice the cocaine barons involved in trafficking drugs to the United States.

He created a terrorist group called Los Extraditables. Its terrorists attacked officials, police, and anyone who opposed the drug trade. The reason for the terrorist attack could have been a major police operation or the extradition of another cocaine mafia boss to the United States. In November 1985, Escobar and other drug traffickers banded together to show the government that they could not be intimidated. Escobar hired large group leftist partisans to commit sabotage.

Left partisans, armed with machine guns, grenades and portable rocket launchers unexpectedly appeared in the center of Bogota and captured the Palace of Justice while at least several hundred people were inside the building. The partisans refused to conduct any negotiations and began to fire in all directions without making any demands. While they held the Palace of Justice in their hands, they destroyed all documents relating to the extradition of criminals. Large army and police forces were brought into the capital of the country. After a full day of siege, assault battalions, supported by tanks and combat helicopters, stormed the Palace of Justice.

The assault killed 97 people, including 11 of the 24 judges. A year later, the Supreme Court overturned the agreement on the extradition of drug traffickers to the United States. However, just a few days later, the new President of Colombia, Versilio Barco, vetoed the Supreme Court's decision and renewed the agreement. In February 1987, Escobar's closest assistant, Carlos Leider, was extradited to the United States. Pablo Escobar was forced to build secret shelters throughout the country. Thanks to information from his people in the government, he managed to stay one step ahead of law enforcement agencies. In addition, the peasants always warned him when suspicious people, a car with policemen or soldiers, or a helicopter appeared.

In 1989, Pablo Escobar again tried to make a deal with justice. He agreed to surrender to the police if the government would guarantee that he would not be extradited to the United States. The authorities refused. Escobar responded to this refusal with terror. In August 1989, the terror reached its peak. On August 16, 1989, Supreme Court member Carlos Valencia died at the hands of Escobar's hitmen. The next day, police Colonel Waldemar Franklin Contero was killed. On August 18, 1989, at a pre-election rally, the famous Colombian politician Luis Carlos Galan was shot, who promised, if elected president of the country, to start an irreconcilable war against cocaine traffickers, to cleanse Colombia of drug lords by extraditing them to the United States. Before the elections, the terror of the Medellin cartel acquired a special scope. Cartel hitmen killed dozens of people every day. In Bogota alone, one of the terrorist drug mafia groups carried out 7 explosions within two weeks, as a result of which 37 people were killed and about 400 were seriously injured.

On November 27, 1989, he planted a bomb on a passenger plane of the Colombian airline Avianaka, which was carrying 107 passengers and crew members. The successor of the deceased Luis Carlos Galan, the future president of Colombia, Cesar Gaviria, was supposed to fly on this plane. Three minutes after the airliner took off, a powerful explosion was heard on board. The plane caught fire and crashed into the nearby hills. None of those on board survived.

As it turned out later, Cezanne Gaviria canceled his flight at the last moment for some reason. Massive raids swept across the country, during which chemical laboratories and coca plantations were destroyed. Dozens of drug cartel members are behind bars. In response to this, Pablo Escobar twice made 4 attempts on the life of the chief of the Colombian secret police, General Miguel Masa Marquez. In the second attempt, on December 6, 1989, a bomb explosion killed 62 people and injured 100 of varying degrees of severity. By the early 90s, he was considered one of the richest people on the planet.

Horrible Pablo Escobar

His fortune was estimated at at least $3 billion. He topped the list of the most wanted drug traffickers in the United States. On his heels invariably followed the most elite special forces, which set themselves the task of catching or destroying Pablo Escobar at any cost. In 1990, just the mention of Pablo Escobar's name struck terror throughout Colombia. He was the most famous criminal in the world. The government created a “Special Search Group” whose target was Pablo Escobar himself.

The group included the best police officers from selected units, as well as people from the army, special services and the prosecutor's office. The creation of the “Special Search Group,” headed by Colonel Martinez, immediately brought positive results. Several people from Pablo Escobar's inner circle ended up in the dungeons of the secret police. Escobar's men kidnapped some of Colombia's richest people. Pablo Escobar hoped that influential relatives of the hostages would put pressure on the government to cancel the agreement on the extradition of the criminals. And ultimately Escobar's plan succeeded.

The government canceled the extradition of Pablo Escobar. On June 19, 1991, after Pablo Escobar was no longer in danger of extradition to the United States, he surrendered to the authorities. Escobar agreed to plead guilty to several minor crimes, in exchange for all his past sins being forgiven. Pablo Escobar was in prison... which he built for himself. The prison was called "La Catedral" and was built in the Envigado mountain range. La Catedral looked more like an expensive, prestigious country club than an ordinary prison. There was a disco, a swimming pool, a jacuzzi and a sauna, and in the courtyard there was a large football field. Friends and women came to see him there. Escobar's family could visit him at any time.

Colonel Martinez's "Special Search Group" did not have the right to approach La Catedral closer than 20 kilometers. Escobar came and went as he pleased. He attended football matches and nightclubs in Medellin. During his imprisonment, Pablo Escobar continued to run his multi-billion dollar cocaine business. One day he learned that his associates in the cocaine cartel, taking advantage of his absence, robbed him. He immediately ordered his men to take them to La Catedral. He personally subjected them to unbearable torture, drilling his victims' knees and tearing out their nails, and then ordered his men to kill them and take the corpses outside the prison.

This time Escobar went too far. On July 22, 1992, President Gaviria gave the order to transfer Pablo Escobar to a real prison. But Escobar found out about the president's decision and escaped from prison. Now he was free, but he had enemies everywhere. There were fewer and fewer places left in which he could find a safe refuge. The governments of the United States and Colombia this time were determined to put an end to Escobar and his Medellin cocaine cartel. After his escape from prison, everything began to fall apart. His friends began to leave him.

Escobar's mistake

Pablo Escobar's main mistake was that he could not critically assess the current situation. He considered himself a more significant figure than he actually was. He continued to have enormous financial resources, but he no longer had real power. The only way to somehow improve the situation was an attempt to renew the agreement with the government. Escobar tried several times to re-enter a deal with justice, but President Cesar Gaviria, as well as the US government, believed that this time it was not worth entering into any negotiations with the drug lord.

It was decided to pursue him and, if possible, eliminate him during his arrest. On January 30, 1993, Pablo Escobar planted a powerful bomb on one of the crowded streets of Bogota. The explosion occurred when there were a lot of people. Mostly these were parents with their children. As a result of this terrorist attack, 21 people were killed and more than 70 were seriously injured. A group of Colombian citizens created the organization “Los PEPES”, the acronym of which stood for “People Victims of Pablo Escobar”. It included Colombian citizens whose relatives died because of Escobar. The day after the terrorist attack, Los PEPES detonated bombs in front of Pablo Escobar's house.

The estate that belonged to his mother was almost completely burned to the ground. Instead of pursuing Pablo Escobar himself, Los PEPES began to terrorize and hunt everyone who was in any way connected with him or his cocaine business. They were simply killed. In a short amount of time, they caused significant damage to his cocaine empire. They killed many of his people and persecuted his family.

They burned his estates. Now Escobar was seriously worried, because Los Pepes, having discovered the family, would immediately destroy it to the last person, not even sparing his elderly mother and children. If his family were outside Colombia, beyond the reach of Los Pepes, he could declare all-out war on the government and his enemies. In the fall of 1993, the Medellin cocaine cartel collapsed.

But Pablo Escobar himself was more worried about his family. For more than a year he had not seen his wife or children. He had not seen his loved ones for more than a year and was greatly missed. For Escobar this was intolerable. On December 1, 1993, Pablo Escobar turned 44 years old. He knew that he was under constant surveillance, so he tried to speak on the phone as briefly as possible so that he would not be detected by NSA agents. However, this time he finally lost his nerve. The day after his birthday, December 2, 1993, he called his family. NSA agents had been waiting for this call for 24 hours. This time, while talking to his son Juan, he stayed on the line for about 5 minutes. After this, Escobar was spotted in the Medellin quarter of Los Olibos.

Soon, the house in which Pablo Escobar was hiding was surrounded on all sides by special agents. The special forces knocked down the door and burst inside. At that moment, Escobar's bodyguard, El Limon, opened fire on the police who were trying to storm the house. He was wounded and fell to the ground. Immediately after this, with a pistol in his hands, Pablo Escobar himself leaned out of the same window. He opened random fire in all directions. He then climbed out the window and tried to escape his pursuers through the roof. There, a bullet fired by a sniper hit Escobar in the head and killed him on the spot.

On December 3, 1993, thousands of Colombians filled the streets of Medellin. Some came to mourn him, others to rejoice. If today in the slums of Medellin you ask a question about who Pablo Escobar was, not one of the people interviewed will say a bad word about Escobar. Literally everyone speaks of him as a positive hero. At the same time, he was the most cruel and heartless criminal. Many even consider him the most cruel person in the world. Now Escobar's prison has been looted, his estates are overgrown with grass, and his cars are rusting in the garage.

Escobar's widow and children live in Argentina; his brother is almost completely blind after a letter bomb was sent to his cell. Escobar's place was taken by competitors - the Rodriguez brothers Orejuelo and the Ochoa clan. And Medellin is still the most dangerous city in the world.